Couple Charged With Kidnapping 2 Amish Sisters

posted by John Johnson, Newser Staff
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2 years ago

(NEWSER)– Police say they've caught the abductors of two young Amish sisters in northern New York, reports AP. Stephen Howells, 39, and girlfriend Nicole Vaisey, 25, are charged with kidnapping, and St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin Wells said today there was a "definite potential" that the couple would have gone after more girls had they not been caught. "There was a lot of thought process that went into this," he said. Authorities say the pair abducted the 7- and 12-year-old girls from a roadside farm stand on Wednesday evening and held them 24 hours at the couple's home about 15 miles away.